Cornell has won the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship 28 times, including 11 consecutive titles between 2007 and 2017.

He led the team for two seasons with back-to-back winning records as well as a third-place finish at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association meet in 1907.

Ackerly then competed for the United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Belgium, where he won the gold medal in the same weight class.

[5] In 1947, Jimmy Miller took over as head coach and led the Big Red to 203 dual meet wins in his 27-year tenure.

In 1960 and 1961, David Auble won back-to-back national championships, which allowed him to compete for the U.S. in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (he placed fourth).

[5] Carmon Molino also competed for Miller and the Big Red and was an alternate on the 1964 U.S. Wrestling Team in Tokyo.

[12] Jack Spates became head coach in 1988 and led the team to five straight Ivy League Championships before leaving his post for the University of Oklahoma.

[13] Koll represented an era of Cornell wrestling that reached unprecedented success including 19 Ivy League Championships (including 16 consecutive between 2003 and 2018), 11 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships, 15 individual national champions, and 14 top ten finishes in the NCAA.

He also won a career high 41 matches in his senior season and was a three-time first-team All-Ivy pick.

Koll also coached dominant Cornell wrestler Travis Lee, who won the national title at two different weight classes: 126-pound in 2003 and 133-pound in 2005.

Jordan Leen added to Cornell's list of national champions, winning the title at the 149 lb weight class in 2008.

Cornell finished a school-best 2nd place at the NCAA Championships in 2010 and crowned freshman Kyle Dake national champion in the 141 lb weight class.

[15] The team eventually finished second in the NCAA tournament, but Kyle Dake was able to repeat as national champion in the higher weight class of 149 lbs.

Junior Kyle Dake made his own history by winning his third national title in three separate weight classes (this year at 157 lbs).

For the 2021-22 season, former assistant Mike Grey was hired to replace Koll as head coach for the Big Red.

[16] In his first season at the helm, Cornell regained the EIWA and Ivy league titles and finished in 7th place at the NCAA tournament.

He led Cornell to five straight Ivy League Championships and nine individual champions before leaving the program for the University of Oklahoma.

[21] Under Rob Koll's direction, Cornell Wrestling has been marketed through some of the most notable newspapers and wrestling sites including The New York Times,[23][24] USA Today,[25][26] The Wall Street Journal,[27] The Cornell Daily Sun,[28] Ithaca Journal, themat.com, wrestlingreport.com, flowrestling.com,[29] YouTube,[30][31] Facebook,[32] Twitter[33] and many more.

His appearance is representative of the sport itself, wearing red spandex's covering from head to toe, coupled with a white Cornell Wrestling singlet.

Although Redman's identity remains secret, he promotes the program through his acrobatic dance moves at wrestling events.

Koll specifically markets wrestling matches using Redman in commercials posted on Facebook[35] and YouTube.

The first arena in the nation built solely for wrestling, the Friedman Center opened in November 2002 on Campus Road.